Python Job Trends in Cheshire

Python
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 29 26
Rank change year-on-year +9 -3 +17
Permanent jobs citing Python 88 45 35
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 11.38% 4.92% 7.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.98% 17.18% 19.23%
Number of salaries quoted 15 19 35
10th Percentile £39,000 £47,250 £27,550
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -23.08% +26.66%
75th Percentile £61,063 £70,625 £76,216
90th Percentile £77,600 £80,000 £100,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £61,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.04% +2.08% -

All Programming Languages
Cheshire

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 259 262 182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 33.51% 28.63% 37.60%
Number of salaries quoted 103 155 142
10th Percentile £34,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £40,000 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £70,938
90th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £84,025
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Python job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Python
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Cheshire over the 6 months to 27 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Python in Cheshire

Python
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 27 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford - 15 £59,875 - 13
Warrington +19 11 £42,500 +6.92% 41
Crewe -7 3 £58,750 +17.50% 6
Chester -15 2 £52,500 -34.38% 12
Wilmslow - 2 - - 2
Lymm - 2 - -
Macclesfield - 1 £50,000 - 8
Neston - 1 - -
Alderley Edge - 1 - - 1
Python
North West

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (5.68%) SAS
2 3 (3.41%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.14%) CANalyzer
1 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Loan IQ
1 1 (1.14%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 27 (30.68%) AWS
1 27 (30.68%) Azure
2 23 (26.14%) GCP
3 7 (7.95%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (2.27%) OpenShift
4 2 (2.27%) SaaS
5 1 (1.14%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.14%) Azure App Service
5 1 (1.14%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.14%) Datadog
5 1 (1.14%) IaaS
5 1 (1.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (44.32%) Cisco IOS
1 39 (44.32%) VPN
2 3 (3.41%) DNS
3 2 (2.27%) DHCP
3 2 (2.27%) HTTP
3 2 (2.27%) SSL
4 1 (1.14%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.14%) Firewall
4 1 (1.14%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.95%) Power BI
2 2 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.27%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.27%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.27%) Oracle Database
2 2 (2.27%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.27%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.14%) GIS
3 1 (1.14%) Neo4j
3 1 (1.14%) Power Query
3 1 (1.14%) Redis
3 1 (1.14%) Tableau
3 1 (1.14%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 5 (5.68%) GitLab
1 5 (5.68%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.55%) Git
3 3 (3.41%) ER Studio
4 2 (2.27%) JIRA
5 1 (1.14%) CA Release Automation
5 1 (1.14%) CANoe
5 1 (1.14%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.14%) TeamCity
General
1 61 (69.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 44 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (12.50%) Finance
4 10 (11.36%) Banking
5 7 (7.95%) Social Skills
6 3 (3.41%) Games
6 3 (3.41%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.27%) Legal
8 1 (1.14%) Automotive
8 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 42 (47.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 22 (25.00%) Senior
3 20 (22.73%) Senior Software Engineer
3 20 (22.73%) Software Engineer
4 5 (5.68%) Developer
5 3 (3.41%) Data Modeller
5 3 (3.41%) Data Scientist
5 3 (3.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (3.41%) Finance Modeller
6 2 (2.27%) Analyst
6 2 (2.27%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (2.27%) Data Engineer
6 2 (2.27%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (2.27%) Games Developer
6 2 (2.27%) Graduate
6 2 (2.27%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (2.27%) Senior Developer
6 2 (2.27%) Senior Games Developer
7 1 (1.14%) Python Developer
7 1 (1.14%) Software Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (46.59%) Elastic Stack
2 22 (25.00%) .NET
3 21 (23.86%) Node.js
4 3 (3.41%) DPDK
4 3 (3.41%) eBPF
5 2 (2.27%) Keras
5 2 (2.27%) PyTorch
5 2 (2.27%) TensorFlow
6 1 (1.14%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.14%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.14%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (1.14%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (1.14%) NumPy
6 1 (1.14%) OpenCV
6 1 (1.14%) Pandas
6 1 (1.14%) React
6 1 (1.14%) Regular Expression
6 1 (1.14%) scikit-learn
6 1 (1.14%) Seaborn
6 1 (1.14%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 59 (67.05%) Cyberattack
2 20 (22.73%) Linux Command Line
2 20 (22.73%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (5.68%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.41%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.27%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.14%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.14%) Blog
6 1 (1.14%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.14%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.14%) NVMe
6 1 (1.14%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.14%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 63 (71.59%) Linux
2 42 (47.73%) Windows
3 39 (44.32%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (53.41%) DevOps
3 42 (47.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 42 (47.73%) Mathematics
3 42 (47.73%) Task Automation
4 40 (45.45%) Platform Engineering
4 40 (45.45%) Risk Management
5 39 (44.32%) Line Management
5 39 (44.32%) Storage Management
6 29 (32.95%) Machine Learning
7 24 (27.27%) Agile
7 24 (27.27%) Software Engineering
7 24 (27.27%) User Experience
8 22 (25.00%) Mentoring
8 22 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 21 (23.86%) Data Engineering
9 21 (23.86%) Microservices
10 20 (22.73%) Cloud Security
10 20 (22.73%) Scrum
11 11 (12.50%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 44 (50.00%) Bash
2 41 (46.59%) PowerShell
3 25 (28.41%) Java
4 24 (27.27%) C++
5 23 (26.14%) JavaScript
6 21 (23.86%) Go
6 21 (23.86%) Rust
7 16 (18.18%) SQL
8 8 (9.09%) R
9 3 (3.41%) C#
10 2 (2.27%) C
10 2 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (2.27%) PHP
10 2 (2.27%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.27%) VBA
11 1 (1.14%) Bicep
11 1 (1.14%) Dart
11 1 (1.14%) Julia
11 1 (1.14%) MATLAB
11 1 (1.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (22.73%) AWS Certification
1 20 (22.73%) AWS Certified Developer
1 20 (22.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 20 (22.73%) DV Cleared
1 20 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.09%) Degree
3 2 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.14%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.14%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.14%) HNC
4 1 (1.14%) HND
4 1 (1.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.41%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.27%) QA
3 1 (1.14%) AUTOSAR
3 1 (1.14%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 45 (51.14%) Docker
2 39 (44.32%) Hyper-V
2 39 (44.32%) VMware NSX
2 39 (44.32%) vSphere
3 3 (3.41%) KVM
3 3 (3.41%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 45 (51.14%) Ansible
2 44 (50.00%) Terraform
3 9 (10.23%) Kubernetes
4 6 (6.82%) Grafana
5 2 (2.27%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (1.14%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 39 (44.32%) 3PAR
1 39 (44.32%) Cisco
1 39 (44.32%) Juniper
1 39 (44.32%) Splunk
2 4 (4.55%) Oracle
3 3 (3.41%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.41%) SaltStack
4 1 (1.14%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.14%) Databricks
4 1 (1.14%) Google
4 1 (1.14%) Pega
4 1 (1.14%) SAP
4 1 (1.14%) TOWER Software